1From James Madison to Francis Walker Gilmer, 18 December 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of the 10th. inclosing the letter from Mr. Correa, for the perusal of which you will please to accept my thanks. I am glad to find that he leaves our country with so many cordial feelings: and I can not but value highly the share allowed me in such, by one, not more distinguished by the treasures of his capacious mind, than by the virtues and charms of his social...
2From James Madison to Francis Walker Gilmer, 17 April 1824 (Madison Papers)
I recd. by the last mail yours of the 9th. and inclose the requested letter to Mr. Rush. I have not added one to Sr. Js. Mackintosh; believing that what I have said in reference to him & yourself, through Mr. Rush will derive from his communications whatever effect could be hoped from a direct letter from myself; that whilst it avoids a liberty, which in a perfect stranger might possibly have...
3Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 14 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Poplar Forest Sep. 11. I found here your favor of Aug. 18. already near a month old, and I deferred answering it in the hope I should have the pleasure of seeing you here with mr Correa , then daily expected. he and mr Walsh left us two days ago, after a stay of two days only. M r Dupont ’s treatise is well worth publishing; for altho’ not a practicable plan itself, it...
4Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 10 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the letter of mr Ticknor which I have thought myself justified in communicating to his friends here on account of the pleasure it would give them, and that, I am sure, will give you pleasure. I trust you did not a moment seriously think of putting yourself behind the door of W. & M. College . a more compleat Cul de sac could not be proposed to you. no, dear Sir, you are...
5Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 28 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 23 d and am sorry it is not in my power to give you the smallest degree of information on the enquiries it contains. it is now 40. years since we worked on the Revisal, and the particular act you speak of having been in that epoch of the British statutes assigned to mr Wythe , never became fell under my consideration but merely when submitted to the...
6Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 4 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of Nov. 29. the suit of mr Wayles ’s exrs. v. Byrd ’s representatives, I knew nothing of, having been brought while I was in Europe by my co-executor Francis Eppes dec d whose executor and son in law Archibald Thweatt finishes the business of mr Eppes . be so good therefore as to pay into his hands any sum which may come to your’s from
7Enclosure: José Corrêa da Serra to Francis W. Gilmer, 9 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
To morrow in the Albion packet i sail for England , and from thence in January i will sail for the Brazil , where i will be in the beginning of March. It is impossible to me to Leave this continent without once more turning my eyes to Virginia , to you and Monticello . I Leave you my representative in that State, and near the persons who attach me to it, and i doubt not of your acceptance of...
8Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 29 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for the communication of mr Correa ’s letter, affectionate to us all, which I now return. no foreigner, I believe, has ever carried with him more, or more sincere regrets of the friends he has left behind. as he embraced in his affections our country generally, I hope his kind recollections will efface the little dissatisfactions he felt with our government before they...
9Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 26 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, very dear Sir, and cordially for your little treatise on Usury, which I have read with great pleasure. you have justified the law on it’s true ground, that of the duty of society to protect it’s members, disabled from taking care of themselves by causes either physical or moral: and the instances you quote where this salutary function has been exercised with unquestionable...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 25 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The belief is now become so general that the legislature will at the ensuing session dispose of the debt of the University so as to liberate it’s funds and bring it into action, that I think it a duty to be taking such measures to save time as may be provisionally taken without injury if we should be dis appointed . The Visitors have from the beginning determined to employ no professor but of...